Edwards, Edward

Edwards, Edward,

1812–86, English library pioneer. As assistant from 1839 in the British Museum, he helped Sir Anthony PanizziPanizzi, Sir Anthony, 1797–1879, British librarian, b. Italy. A political exile, Panizzi settled in England in 1823 and was naturalized in 1832. He was associated with the British Museum library as assistant librarian (1831–37), keeper of printed books.....Click the link for more information. draw up the rules for the catalog. Edwards collected library statistics and advised William Ewart on the free-library legislation for Great Britain (1850). He was first librarian of the Manchester Free Library from 1850 to 1858. Edwards wrote a biography of Sir Walter Raleigh (1865), Memoirs of Libraries (1859), and Lives of the Founders of the British Museum (1870).

Another problem concerns Nichols's analysis of those famous Puritans usually "covered" in American Literature survey courses, Jonathan Edwards, Edward Taylor (Anne Bradstreet is mentioned but not discussed).

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